Chapter 3 Heaven and Earth (Seven Seconds)

The Japanese were beaten up, so they would rather slow down the military pressure on the Chongqing National Government than retaliate against the Jin-Cha-Hebei base. Zhang Songling was not surprised at all. As early as the end of the Hundred Regiments War, the situation had already revealed clues. The military supplies transported from the occupied areas to the southwest battlefield were greatly reduced. At the same time, a large number of elite Japanese soldiers took trains from East China and South China to North China to move to major cities and railway hubs, ready to launch a counterattack against the Eighth Route Army at any time.

In the Japanese documents seized by the 24th Regiment, texts such as "The power of the North China Communist Army has developed rapidly and should not be ignored. If countermeasures are not taken early, North China will become the world of the Communist Party. For this reason, the focus of the North China Front Army's crusade must be fully pointed to the Communist Army", further indicating that the Japanese were anxious to find their anxious mood after being suddenly hit, (Note 1)

Zhang Songling was surprised that Fang Guoqiang, who was far away from the Great Wall, could even keenly detect the cold wave coming, and could take the initiative to make corresponding preparations without anyone's reminder. This is not ordinary vision. To a certain extent, Fang Guoqiang's insight into the situation is still above him, the guerrilla captain. If Zhang Songling was left at home and Fang Guoqiang participated in the Hundred Regiments War, he would never guarantee that he could make the same judgment on the future situation.

But while he was surprised and admired, Fang Guoqiang's way of speaking made him feel a little uncomfortable, especially the sentence, "I was not sure whether the military region leaders would let you back." It seemed that as long as Zhang Songling did not come back, the Black Stone Guerrillas would have nothing to do with him, and there was a self-centered smell everywhere.

"It's right for you to prepare in advance." Zhang Songling tried to avoid making himself seem too careless, "I also think that the Japanese Kwantung Army will not always ignore the situation in Heishi Village, but"

After a brief pause, he reminded very carefully, "But with our own strength alone, it will definitely be difficult to deal with new changes in the situation. So I personally think that if we can unite, we should try our best to unite the surrounding Mongolian nobles and the independent battalion of the Fu Zuoyi tribe, and respond to each other as before and fight together."

"Unity must be united, but we cannot give in blindly, and even give up the most basic principles for unity." Fang Guoqiang immediately realized that Zhang Songling's words seemed to be pointing, and frankly spoke, "Let's just take Zhou Heichang's independent camp. We have indeed fought side by side with the guerrillas many times before, and we can even be said to be the benefactor of our guerrillas. However, kindness is kindness, but we cannot let them go to the base areas at will, harass and harm the people because of his kindness."

"Zhou Heikang has harmed the people. Why didn't you write to me when the incident happened? " Zhang Songling immediately jumped into his heart, and he frowned and asked.

"He did not have it myself." Fang Guoqiang took a step back slightly and responded in a very gentle tone. "But last year he blindly expanded his team and recruited many bandits and hooligans, making the military discipline of the independent battalion very bad. He forced the sale and forced the people to sell the animals and did not give enough prices. Several times, he even grabbed the side of Crescent Lake. I called him to protest. He verbally promised to give an explanation from the people, but there was no movement afterwards."

"So you don't allow the independent camp to come to the Crescent Lake again," Zhang Songling breathed a deep breath, and tried to make his words sound less stiff. No matter what the final result was, Fang Guoqiang did indeed take the right path at the beginning, and he, a cadre of the guerrilla team, could not speak for outsiders. "Is this punishment a bit too wide? Zhou Heichang is very concerned about his face, and not everyone likes to cause trouble for trouble."

"No," Fang Guoqiang smiled and explained in a low voice, "I made several requirements. First, no one who enters the base is allowed to equip guns. Second, they are required to register their names like ordinary vendors and the purpose of coming to the base. Third, if you think registration is troublesome, every time you arrive at the base, you will notify the guerrillas by telegram, and I will send a special person to accompany you."

It would be better to order the independent camp people not to step into the base area for half a step. It can be imagined that after Zhou Heichang received the "proposal" from the guerrillas, he would be angry. Zhang Songling felt depressed and lowered his head to look at Fang Guoqiang, but he did not see any signs of uneasiness on the latter's face, as if the mistake was all on Zhou Heichang, and he had no shortcomings on his own.

Feeling the disappointment in Zhang Songling's eyes, Fang Guoqiang smiled again and continued to explain: "I understand the friendship between you and Zhou Heichang. Brother Long also opposed it when he made the decision. But since we have established a base, we have the obligation to protect all the people in the base. It is inevitable that some people will offend this. Moreover, Zhou Heichang is now very close to Peng Xuewen, and it is inevitable that he is sowed by the latter."

"He saved all the lives of all the guerrillas." Zhang Songling felt the more he heard it, and he couldn't help but interrupt in a low voice, "It's not just Brother Long, but everyone in the entire guerrillas, including the Red Team, and more than once, including the Peng Xuewen, whom you look down on the most, took people to trick the guerrillas into opening the gate of Heishi Village when the guerrillas were attacked by the Japanese. Together with Zhou Heichang, he gave the Japanese a cauldron to remove the firewood."

"But it is true that he wants to annex us several times." Fang Guoqiang was a little aggrieved and gritted his teeth to respond.

"Isn't it impossible to succeed? I didn't use any force," Zhang Songling was so angry that he was very angry and emphasized loudly, "There is too much friction between the Kuomintang and the Eighth Route Army. Isn't it the same thing that we should continue to join forces to fight against the Japanese devils," he said.

"I didn't say I wouldn't join forces with them, but I should set the rules with them clearly and stop doing whatever they wanted as they were before." Fang Guoqiang was certainly dissatisfied and defended himself with his neck. "When they enter the base, they have to abide by the rules of the base. Similarly, when we get to other people's territory, we must respect his independent camp rules. As for the matter of cooperation in anti-Japanese war, there must be a charter. Both families implement the rules according to the agreed charter, put all the rules on the surface, respect each other, so that they can cooperate more rules and will not cause unnecessary misunderstandings because of one party's misbehavior."

"You" Zhang Songling was so angry that his eyes turned black, but he couldn't find any mistakes from Fang Guoqiang's words. At this moment, he finally understood why Li Laojiu and others disliked Fang Guoqiang. This guy was absolutely right in everything he did, but he didn't consider the feelings of others at all, and he didn't consider that in addition to the principles and rules, there were human feelings in this world.

Zhou Heicang, Li Laojiu and others are all powerful people in the world, so they will definitely not be able to stand Fang Guoqiang's face so much. With Zhao Tianlong's character, even if he does not agree with Fang Guoqiang's approach, he will definitely take the overall situation into consideration and respect the authority of the political commissar. In this way, the cooperation atmosphere between the Black Stone Guerrillas and the Black Stone Independent Battalion will be gone. Even if the two families may join forces to fight against the Japanese in the future, they will be forced to face the situation and will never have any trouble. The other side will still go to rescue even though they know that they may also trap themselves.

Fortunately, so far, there has been no armed conflict between the Blackstone Guerrillas and the Blackstone Independent Battalion. There is still room for ease and make up for the conflict caused by Fang Guoqiang's recklessness. Thinking of this, Zhang Songling took a deep breath for the third time and said with a smile: "Okay, the rules have been established anyway, so let's continue to implement them. When I escort the students back, I will go to the Independent Battalion in person and talk to Heizi openly. I guess he will understand the difficulties here after hearing our specific ideas clearly."

"My actions were indeed a little impatient." Seeing Zhang Songling taking the initiative to make concessions, Fang Guoqiang tried his best not to hold on to his own point of view. "If you can mediate from it and ease the relationship between the two families, it is really not possible, and there is no need to force it. Fu Zuoyi's Northern Army has been anxious to draw a clear line with our Eighth Route Army. Since Zhou Heikang is the battalion commander of the Northern Army, it is impossible for him to be unrestrained by this general environment."

"If you can continue to cooperate, it is better to continue to cooperate as much as possible." Zhang Songling suppressed his annoyance and shook his head with a smile, "There are diehards in the Kuomintang and people who can cooperate with each other, and the same is true for the Northern Army. Fu Zuoyi's own attitude cannot restrain everyone below."

"That's right." Fang Guoqiang's biggest characteristic is to reason. He heard Zhang Songling take the precedent of cooperation between the Eighth Route Army and some progressive people in the Kuomintang, and nodded with a smile.

"There are also Bai Yin and Siqin's side. I think if I can continue to be friends with them, I try not to push them to the enemy or the Military Control Commission." Zhang Songling pondered his words and continued to whisper, "Especially, Siqin, although she is a Mongolian prince, has always been very friendly to our guerrillas, so we should try our best to take care of her wherever she can take care of her."

"Have you heard something?" Fang Guoqiang once again keenly noticed something in Zhang Songling's words, and asked with wide eyes.

"On the way back, I rescued Xiao Qinglian from the puppet army, but she refused to follow me up the mountain and stayed at Lao Has's house tonight." Zhang Songling looked at him and responded in a very peaceful tone.

"Did she say that I broke up the couple and dismantled Brother Long and Siqin?" Fang Guoqiang's nostrils spurted a cold air and laughed bitterly, "Haha, so you are anxious to ask me where Brother Long is, are you afraid that I will clean your brother while you are not at home."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Songling finally couldn't bear it anymore and slapped the table hard. "Does I offend your political commissar's authority when I ask the deputy captain whereabouts, and I offend your political commissar's authority? Well, even if this is your territorial scope, I just came back and didn't understand the specific situation and shouldn't ask, but as a friend, I ask you what the problem was between Siqin and Brother Long, is not OK? After all, our guerrillas are operating on other people's territory and have not implemented the land policy there. After all, we still have to unite all those who can unite the devils, instead of turning all supporters and sympathizers into strangers, so that they can watch the fun around them."

Since the two met again, the cooperation time was not too short. They slapped the table and argued, but it was the first time. Fang Guoqiang was obviously very uncomfortable with this. He was forced by Zhang Songling to take several steps backwards before he stood firm against the wall. He gritted his teeth and replied loudly: "Do you understand that you are clearly raising an army to punish him? Okay, I can tell you clearly that someone in our side is doing right and straight, and never did anything that deliberately makes things difficult for others. He did not slander our Eighth Route Army. If you don't believe it, you can convene the cadres. If anyone at the meeting thinks that I did something wrong with Brother Long and Siqin, I will immediately report to the military sub-district."

"Papapapapapapapapapa" The guard soldiers on duty outside the door accidentally heard the captain and political commissar roaring at each other, and quickly took a step and ran far away, fearing that after listening to Political Commissar Fang, Captain Zhang really ordered a meeting of all cadres to expose the conflict between the two directly to all the cadres and soldiers. In that case, all the tolerance of the deputy captain Long Ge over the past year will be wasted. The many efforts made by Political Commissar Fang to formalize the guerrillas may be wasted.

The response of the guards came into the ears of Zhang Songling and Fang Guoqiang through the thin window paper. Both were stunned and immediately realized the impact of the dispute on the entire guerrillas and even the base areas. They both restrained the fire and said at the same time: "I'm sorry, I just now."

When he said that, he felt that he was a little stiff, so he laughed at each other and shook his head hard.

"Our guerrillas have no financial strength, no comparison with the Mongolian princes around them, no comparison with the little Japanese in the city, no comparison with the orthodox, and no comparison with the independent camp of Zhou Heichang last year." After breathing a long sigh, Fang Guoqiang explained patiently, "So what I can do is to do everything I can to maintain the image of the guerrillas, so that the people feel that our guerrillas are really fighting for them, and our guerrillas are very different from other teams. , abide by the rules, be kinder than others, and be more particular than others. There are not so many messy things in the team. Leave the children to us and rest assured. Follow us, we can build a clean and hopeful society so that every upright and kind person can live a good life with his own hands, rather than like now, he is a bandit, bully, gangster, and gangster. The more he lives, the more he is, the more he will be, the more troubles he will be from the sky."

After a slight pause, he continued to add, "Only in this way can we gain the support of the majority of people, have the hearts of the people, and are also qualified to compete with others for the world. Otherwise, since all teams are of the same virtue, why do the people have to choose us?"

"Okay, okay, okay, you have reason, can't you be reasonable?" Zhang Songling was moved and felt a little ashamed when he heard Fang Guoqiang tell what he was thinking for the first time.

No matter how the other party does, the original intention is always good, without any selfishness in it. In contrast, my performance just now is a bit lacking in mind.

"The world is great, and the truth is the greatest. As long as we occupy the truth, even if we misunderstand friends in a short period of time, they will slowly understand us after the impulse." Fang Guoqiang insisted on fighting for right or wrong, looking at Zhang Songling's eyes and reiterated solemnly.

"No wonder people call you Fang Chou, you're just serious about death." Zhang Songling smiled helplessly and nodded slightly. After laughing, she sighed and complained in a low voice: "Okay, you're doing everything right, okay, but do you tell me first what happened between them? The people in the royal palace were not willing to even touch the soil of Qilin Ridge. As far as I know, Siqin's affection for Brother Long is extremely deep."

"It is because of the deep affection that something went wrong." Fang Guoqiang also sighed, with a helpless look on his face, "Do you know what people outside say? It is all because of Brother Long's handsome plan. He said that Brother Long's base was obtained by Brother Long's son-in-law. He also said that you and the Red Team saw that Siqin had deep affection for Brother Long, so he pulled Brother Long to Qilin Ridge desperately. Otherwise, how could he be the Eighth Route Army with a lone thief."

"Farting is all about farting." Before Fang Guoqiang finished speaking, Zhang Songling was furious. It was too immoral. These rumors were really immoral. They were throwing feces on the heads of the Black Stone guerrillas. But every rumor was very concise, making people unable to argue even if they were covered in their bodies.

"It's fart, but the people like to spread these things. What should you do if you change them? You can't hear someone gossiping, just capture him as an enemy and shoot him. So you can only let Brother Long be a little low-key and don't always run to the royal palace, so that outsiders can catch more excuses." Fang Guoqiang glanced at him and added angrily.

"Then they can't cut off contact, and there is no explanation for Siqin." Zhang Songling thought for a while and said unwillingly. Fang Guoqiang's approach was indeed not too bad. If he was here at that time, he would definitely temporarily keep Brother Long and Siqin apart. After the rumors faded, he would put the marriage on the agenda as soon as possible.

"I didn't let them cut off contact. Really, I can swear to the Party Constitution." Fang Guoqiang quickly looked outside, and then added in a very low voice, "I know that everyone outside is scolding me, but I can't explain it to them clearly. It was a last resort to arrange for Brother Long to try to perform tasks outside, and they were both."

Speaking of this, he poked his head to the window and looked, and his voice was lowered. "They two have already made trouble. Thanks to Lao Scar's excellent medical skills, they secretly went to the royal palace to help Brother Long cover up the matter."
Chapter completed!